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COMMENTARY
Jul 13, 2005

Sinophobia complicates takeover bids

HONG KONG -- In quick succession, the previously intangible reality of "China Rising" has taken on tangible form for Americans, as China has used the wealth that has accrued as a result of its rapid development and huge trade surpluses to try and takeover three U.S. businesses.
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2005

Toshiba hails U.S. judge's decision on Lexar

Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday welcomed a U.S. judge's rejection of a California company's bid to bar it from selling products that use flash memory chips.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2005

Honda unveils new engines in runup to Civic campaign

Honda Motor Co. said Tuesday it has developed a new 1.8-liter engine and a new hybrid system that have both better fuel efficiency and more power.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2005

Meiji Yasuda president to resign

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. President Ryotaro Kaneko announced his intention to resign at a representative members' meeting Tuesday because new cases of the company illegally withholding policy payouts have been discovered.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2005

Marubeni fined 100 million yen for evading taxes

Tax authorities have found that Marubeni Corp. intentionally concealed about 600 million yen in income over three years through March 31, 2003, sources close to the case said Saturday.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 3, 2005

Writers ask: Are you being served?

SAYING YES TO JAPAN: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market, by Tim Clark and Carl Kay. New York: Vertical, 2005. 175 pp., $14.95 (paper). Readers familiar with Japan are in danger of whiplash when reading this entertaining and informative book about Japan's services sector. Some...
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2005

Firms upbeat for first time in three quarters: 'tankan'

Japan's large manufacturers turned more confident about their business in the April-June quarter, marking the first improvement in three quarters, according to the Bank of Japan's "tankan" business sentiment survey released Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2005

Banks admit 800,000 cases of customer data losses

A wave of customer data losses has been sweeping across Japan, with more than 800,000 such cases being detected at major banking groups and regional banks, companies and financial institutions said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2005

Dynacity chief held over stimulants

Satoshi Nakayama, 42, president of midsize condominium sales company Dynacity Corp., has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a stimulant drug, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2005

LDP council drops consensus to stamp revised postal bills

Two months after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sent a package of postal privatization bills to the Diet, his Liberal Democratic Party's Executive Council decided Tuesday to back a revised version of them by a majority vote.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2005

Students in suit, tie need not apply

Environment Minister Yuriko Koike said Friday students applying for jobs had better not wear jackets and ties to the interview.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2005

Door wide open for resolving Korean nuclear issue

HONOLULU -- There is no country in Asia, indeed in the world, that behaves like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since its founding more than a half century ago, the DPRK has pursued a different course, always troubling. For 13-15 years it has been the very center of Northeast Asian...
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2005

Tertiary index climbed 1.8% in April

Japan's service industry activity index jumped 1.8 percent in April from the previous month to mark the first rise in three months, the government said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jun 23, 2005

Sony shareholders give nod to Stringer's team

Shareholders of Sony Corp. on Wednesday approved a new management team led by Howard Stringer, who pledged to turn around the company's struggling consumer electronics business.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 22, 2005

Teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony

When Kazufumi Miyazawa, vocalist of the Japanese rock band The Boom wrote the song titled "Shima-uta" about 15 years ago, no one imagined the path it would take, starting as a huge domestic hit and then gaining a life of its own abroad.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 21, 2005

Money, good men, Vikings and markets

Fast, reliable AG offers advice from Yokohama on a fast and reliable way to get money from the USA to Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2005

Prosecutors set to widen bid probe

The Tokyo High Prosecutor's Office is set this week to begin questioning on a voluntary basis former executives of Japan Highway Public Corp. who went on to be hired by companies now embroiled in a massive bid-rigging scandal, sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jun 19, 2005

Oasis of opulence in an African wilderness

Far below is a ribbon of blue; not much to look at, a shallow stream, a dribble; barely enough to float a boat on. Or so it appears from half a kilometer above it. But the Fish River, inconsequential as it looks from the clifftops, has, in its very long lifetime, moved more rock than all Africa's construction...
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2005

Toyota, Honda fuel-cell cars certified

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. said Friday their fuel-cell cars have become the first to receive motor-vehicle type certification from the government.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2005

Intelligent cars may make driving safer, but they aren't cheap

People driving in bad weather, at night or on slippery roads will be able to enjoy a greater sense of security, thanks to new cutting-edge technology developed by Japanese automakers.
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2005

Sumitomo invests in Russia tieup

Trading house Sumitomo Corp. said Monday it has invested in a wireless broadband service in Russia through a capital tieup with Dutch firm Enforta B.V., which has a Russian unit licensed for such services.
Japan Times
Features
Jun 12, 2005

Retro points to a rosy retail future

When the four floors of the Nakano Broadway shotengai opened for business in October 1966, resident retailers went for a high-class image in the hopes of attracting a wealthy clientele.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2005

Indian growth must co-opt the bypassed

MANILA -- India is a paradox. The successes of a select group of sectors -- from information technology to industr and services -- are creating an urban elite showcased as the builders of a modern and vibrant country on the cusp of joining the major economic powers of the world.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2005

Beer shipments up as new suds surge

Shipments of beer and beerlike alcoholic beverages made by the nation's five major breweries inched up in May for the second straight month, as their new "third-category" brews offset slumping sales of beer and other products, according to industry data released Friday.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2005

End of an era as TSE bell tolls for disgraced Kanebo

Kanebo Ltd., one of the oldest listed companies in Japan, traded for the last time Friday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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